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World Of Trouble LTD SEA BLUE

It is with great pleasure Drabant Music can announce the new project from legendary Norwegian songwriter and guitar player
Pål Waaktaar-Savoy, of a-ha and Savoy fame.

Waaktaar & Zoe is
the
name of the new duo, where Påls exquisite and timeless songwriting will
be carried into a new era by a talented and totally fresh new singer
called Zoë Aphrodite Gnecco. They get the balance right. Although she is
a new face, Zoë is no stranger to music and
studios, being the daughter of American musician Jimmy Gnecco, Påls
friend and collaborator from the project Weatherwane.

The songs on the debut album World of Trouble,
that will drop worldwide in February next year, serves as perfect
vehicles
for the «out of her time»-ness of Zoës deep and expressive voice,
bringing a cinematic quality to the music. Pål will, because of his
early global pop hits with a-ha, be forever linked with the glitzy and
urbane glass&concrete pop of the eighties, but throughout
his career with that band, and his other band Savoy, he has
additionally shown a knack for songwriting drawn from the soil where
classic pop and rock of the sixties and seventies has grown. He has also
kept a keen interest in what’s going on today, and living
in Manhattan and Brooklyn for the last couple of decades has made its
mark on his songwriting and sound.

Some
of the songs on the album has a long back story, as Pål is known for
revisiting old themes and finishing songs he has
kept in various drawers for decades. But Zoës voice, his distinct
signature as a songwriter and musician, the vintage guitars and synths
and the rich but DIY-vibe of the production (Pål has indeed done it
himself, and plays most of the instruments), gives
the music and the album it’s very own identity.

The
first single, «Beautiful Burnout», is available on most digital
platforms now, and on a limited edition seven inch vinyl
single in November. The guitar parts and beautiful songlines has this
specific classic quality: it sticks in your head. The lush, beatlesque
string arrangements gives the rootsy song wings to fly. And his lyrics,
about contently walking the streets of Soho
in the beautiful morning sun, watching other people doing the zombie
walk to work to do their part for the modern machine, gets new meaning
when sung from the perspective of a twenty year old girl weary of the
pressures of our society. «I don’t mind if i turn
out unlike those I’m around», as the song goes. The breezy, laissez-faire vibe of the tune captures the essence perfectly, as does it’s accompanying music video.

The
songs of Waaktaar & Zoe is the sound of two people creating music
for the sake of music, effortlessly making pop music of vintage
character and quality.
It may be a world of trouble, but it is still possible to find meaning
and happiness through music.